German Road Signpost Locations on Federal and City Streets

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie provides a dataset detailing the location of signposts on federal motorways, federal roads, and city streets. The data is served via a Web Feature Service (WFS) and was last updated on March 5, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map road infrastructure assets based on signpost locations.
• Analyze signpost density for road network planning based on coverage of motorways, federal roads, and city streets.
• Develop navigation or driver-assistance systems using precise signpost geolocation data.
• Conduct safety audits by correlating signpost presence with accident data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy.
• Covers multiple road types: federal motorways, federal roads, and city streets.
• Last updated on March 5, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to eu_open_data.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 00:00:00

Geography

Germany